China

The Economist on China

Weekly round-up

IN ADDITION to the China-related offerings gathered up here on Analects, we publish a China section each week in the print edition of TheEconomist. We also cover China-related happenings in other sections of the print edition, and on some of our other blogs. To help readers find all our China coverage in one place, we provide this handy round-up.

In our China section this week we start with the complex story of local-government debt (keeping in mind that by “local” we are sometimes referring to provinces with populations and economies larger than those of most nations).

We follow with a piece about the increasing proportion of college graduates who join China’s Communist Party. It’s not necessarily for the love of Marx. And we end the section with a piece on Chinese film, and one director who is hoping to manage a rare feat: appealing to viewers both at home and abroad, yet still passing muster with the censors.

Lastly at Babbage, our science and technology blog, we describe the plans of an American billionaire to establish lunar private property rights and thereby foil what he perceives as “China’s takeover of the Moon”.